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(Reuters) - Post-it notes maker 3M Co said its board opposed a proposal by shareholder James McRitchie to allow investors holding enough shares to take a particular action through written consent without putting it to a vote. McRitchie and his shareholder activist ally John Chevedden proposed that such actions be approved without prior notice to other stockholders or the company, 3M said in a letter to stockholders. (http://r.reuters.com/seq58v) "The proposal would allow a group of stockholders to force fundamental changes on the company, such as a sale or replacement of the board of directors," Chief Executive Inge Thulin said in the letter.

(Reuters) - U.S. drugstore chain operator Walgreen Co is under pressure from a group of shareholders to consider relocating to Europe to gain tax benefits, the Financial Times reported. Shareholders owning nearly 5 percent of the company's shares lobbied Walgreen's management to use its ownership stake in Alliance Boots to change its legal domicile to Europe, the financial daily said. The push was made at a private meeting between the shareholders and company executives in Paris on Friday, the paper said in a report on Sunday.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn admitted on Thursday that several major shareholders in eBay Inc he had spoken to did not want to see fast-growing payments division PayPal hived off from the company at this time. Icahn, who on Thursday backed off a very public campaign against the board of the Internet retailer and his own demands that PayPal be spun off, told CNBC in an interview he had not capitulated and still desired to see an eBay-PayPal split at some point.

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Deutsche Bank will ask shareholders to approve raising limits on executive bonuses for 2014 as required by new European rules, according to an agenda for the bank's annual shareholder meeting to be held on May 22. European Union rules say that bankers' bonuses cannot exceed the annual fixed salary, or twice that if shareholders approve, to curb the sort of excessive risk-taking blamed for the 2008-09 financial crisis....

LONDON (Reuters) - Listed companies across the European Union must get shareholder approval on pay for their top executives under a draft law aimed at making firms more answerable to their owners and addressing public anger over big pay rises for bosses. EU financial services chief Michel Barnier has proposed toughening up the 28-country bloc's law on shareholder rights to tackle "short-termism" in company planning, while stopping short of capping pay in the way he has done for banker bonuses.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A coalition of investors in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac on Wednesday launched an effort to stop Congress from moving ahead with a U.S. housing finance reform bill, arguing it would deny them a fair share in any remaining value in the two companies. The new tax-exempt group, Investors Unite, said it wants to protect the rights of shareholders in the bailed-out mortgage finance companies. It is holding meetings in Washington and sending dozens of investors to Capitol Hill to promote its cause.

PARIS/ZURICH (Reuters) - Holcim of Switzerland unveiled a deal to buy France's Lafarge on Monday to create the world's biggest cement maker, with $44 billion of annual sales, and launch asset sales worldwide to steer it over antitrust hurdles. The partners billed the industry's biggest ever tie-up as a merger of equals, under which Lafarge shareholders receive one Holcim share for every Lafarge held and Holcim investors end up with 53 percent of the new group. The merged business will be based in Switzerland and listed in Zurich and Paris.

(Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to pay $57 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the personal computer maker's former management of defrauding shareholders by abandoning a business model it had long touted. The lawsuit was filed after former Chief Executive Leo Apotheker shocked investors on August 18, 2011 by announcing plans to refocus the company on business services and products. He also revealed plans to scrap WebOS, whose rights HP had obtained when it bought Palm Inc in 2010; pay $11.1 billion for British software company Autonomy Plc; and possibly spin off HP's personal computer business.

MADRID (Reuters) - Shareholders of Spain's Repsol approved the oil major's $5 billion settlement with Argentina over the 2012 seizure of YPF at an annual meeting on Friday that also shed light on tensions with Mexico's Pemex. Mexican state oil firm Pemex is Repsol's third-largest shareholder with 9.3 percent and has one representative on Repsol's board of directors. The Mexican company has publicly clashed with Repsol Chairman Antonio Brufau over his handling of negotiations with Argentina over YPF. Aside from approval of the YPF deal, shareholders passed a new bylaw that would make it difficult to split the company into two businesses, upstream and downstream.

RIO DE JANEIRO/BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's securities watchdog on Thursday suspended the offer of shares in telecommunications company Grupo Oi SA for up to 30 days, dealing a setback to its planned merger with Portugal Telecom . The Securities and Exchanges Commission decision came after Oi's chief executive officer, Zeinal Bava, breached a mandatory quiet period ahead of the offer by making comment to the press. The public offer of Oi shares is a key operation for the success of the merger of the two telecom companies.